How to Use subculture in a Sentence

subculture

noun
  • There’s this whole subculture of teenagers all the way through ages 29 and 30, my wife being one of them.
    Jessi Virtusio, chicagotribune.com, 25 Mar. 2022
  • Like all post-war subcultures, goth was born out of a need to rage against the machine.
    Tish Weinstock, Vogue, 31 Aug. 2024
  • What works better is how the miniseries brings the whole chess subculture to life.
    Darren Franich, EW.com, 21 Oct. 2020
  • The play, under the clear direction of Lisa James, captures both the era and the subculture.
    Charles McNultytheater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2022
  • So there may be a whole subculture of music/Way fans who knew about it.
    cleveland, 7 Aug. 2020
  • Messinger went on to share a thread of some of her favorite Date Me docs, a celebration of the subculture.
    WIRED, 4 Sep. 2022
  • These were scary times, and Britain’s youth needed a subculture that would reflect this.
    Tish Weinstock, Vogue, 31 Aug. 2024
  • Li grew up in a unique subculture where crime spoke many languages and crossed borders with ease.
    Sebastian Rotella, ProPublica, 11 Oct. 2022
  • These are nights of nostalgia, but for many, the punk subculture is a lifestyle.
    Dallas News, 30 Dec. 2022
  • Every culture and subculture has used the white T-shirt.
    Julie Tong, Vogue, 16 July 2024
  • Its players and fans say Dream SMP has given rise to a new subculture for girls in gaming.
    Kat Tenbarge, NBC News, 26 June 2022
  • Scene was a subculture that started in the early aughts and became popular through the mid- and late-2000s.
    José Criales-Unzueta, Vogue, 22 July 2022
  • The collection, which debuts today, June 25, is the brand's second, and is inspired by the punk subculture in the U.K.
    Rosa Sanchez, Forbes, 25 June 2021
  • Rather than compromise its sound for rock hits, though, the band became a full-on subculture.
    August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2024
  • In the close subculture of strongmen and strongwomen, her suicide came as a shock, even among those who knew her well.
    John Leland, New York Times, 20 Jan. 2023
  • For Bay Area natives of a certain age, the film’s settings, subcultures and music will ring true.
    Bonnie Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 4 Aug. 2023
  • The subculture of hot sauce is so fascinating and unique.
    Annie Alleman, chicagotribune.com, 3 Aug. 2020
  • The rap squat came from prison subculture and was first called the prison pose, supposedly a crouch meant to look menacing.
    Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 16 Nov. 2023
  • One of the online subcultures that influenced the birth of e/acc are the Rationalists.
    Robert Evans, Rolling Stone, 27 Jan. 2024
  • The newspaper of record seems to be marketing to the dominant subculture of years gone by.
    David Guberman, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Feb. 2023
  • The art form has long been popular amongst Black nerd and gamer subcultures and has been loved and referenced in Black art (and vice versa) for decades.
    Aj Morris, Essence, 10 May 2024
  • Hip-hop, by then a dynamic subculture, was walloped but would not be set back.
    Danyel Smith, New York Times, 8 Aug. 2023
  • For me, 80s D&D was a subculture and nerd culture was a sub-sub culture well unlike today.
    Adrienne Gibbs, Forbes, 1 July 2022
  • Her career has since been marked by books that celebrate cities and their subcultures.
    Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2024
  • As he became immersed in the subculture surrounding the sport, Jaramillo felt out of place.
    The New Yorker, 13 May 2022
  • Perhaps not to the extent of fans within Japan’s romance video game subculture, though.
    Conor Feehly, Discover Magazine, 2 June 2022
  • This documentary short is an ode to the kind of style that binds a subculture together.
    The New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2023
  • By the time the ’90s rolled around, the subculture had splintered into various movements.
    Tish Weinstock, Vogue, 31 Aug. 2024
  • So many different subcultures and styles coexist here and all turn on each other, and people like to go between different styles.
    Tianwei Zhang, WWD, 2 Sep. 2024
  • From indie music festivals to street art, Chemnitz’s subcultures will also come into focus, as part of its effort to foster a cosmopolitan, democratic future in the face of recent challenges.
    David Nikel, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2024

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